{"id":10743,"date":"2020-12-20T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10743"},"modified":"2020-12-20T12:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:58:57","slug":"the-christmas-ornament-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=10743","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Ornament Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Origami-Swan-Featured-932x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10744\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Origami-Swan-Featured-932x1024.jpg 932w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Origami-Swan-Featured-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Origami-Swan-Featured-768x844.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Origami-Swan-Featured-1398x1536.jpg 1398w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Origami-Swan-Featured.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 932px) 100vw, 932px\" \/><figcaption>https:\/\/www.ornamentshop.com\/christmas-blog\/origami-swan-ornament\/<br>(includes instructions!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jenny Blackford\u00c2\u00a0<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><font face=\"Arial\">\nThat blue-silver\norigami thing with wings\ninside the graceful ribbonned\nglobe of Christmas glass\nwas doubtless meant to be a swan\n\u00c2\u00a0\n-- or maybe it's a more peculiar bird.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nIn mediaeval times\nmonks taught that hungry mother pelicans\nwould pierce their feathed breasts\nto feed their young on their heart-blood,\nurging their often half-starved human flock\nto more self-sacrifice.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d really rather\nthat the silver-paper bird was anything\nbut a starving pelican\nfeeding herself to her brood.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nLuckily, the more I look into the globe\nthe more the origami thing with wings\nlooks bony, ancient, wild.\n\u00c2\u00a0\nCould it be the fabled\nChristmas Pterosaur?<\/font>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Blackford\u00c2\u00a0 That blue-silver origami thing with wings inside the graceful ribbonned globe of Christmas glass was doubtless meant to be a swan \u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; or maybe it&#8217;s a more peculiar bird. \u00c2\u00a0 In mediaeval times monks taught that hungry mother pelicans would pierce their feathed breasts to feed their young on their heart-blood, urging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10745,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10743\/revisions\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}